We are all in the first year of our CPE preparation course. Most of us are university students studying here in Thessaloniki.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

This is an exercise we discussed yesterday in our lesson. Who do you think should get the treatment?

Dilemma

General hospital


Photo by BinkyBink


The situation: Imagine that you are in a small hospital in a poor part of the world which has only a limited number of beds.There are three patients who require urgent medical treatment, however, there is only one place available.


DOCTOR 1


You are the head of paediatrics. You have in your care aseriously ill young girl who needs an operation on her spine. If she does not have an operation within the next 48 hours
it is almost certain she will be paralysed from the waist down.

DOCTOR 2


You are a neurologist. You have in your care a sick pregnantwoman who must undergo brain surgery to remove a tumour. Without the operation her chances of survival are 50/50.


DOCTOR 3


You are the local GP. You have in your care a father of three. The man has a heart condition caused by heavy smoking. If he doesn't have open-heart surgery immediately he is likely to
suffer a heart attack and possibly die.

Sunday, January 21, 2007

Hello, I'm George (Maris). Surprise!!! Finally I bought a laptop and....a 1024kbps ADSL connection.From now on, I'll write more often.CU in the class!

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

How was 2006 for you? Here is a video I made showing some of the highlights of my year.What I would like you to do is;

a) Ask me a few questions about what the pictures mean to me.
b) Create you own presentation. It doesn't have to as long as mine. Simply go to Slide.com and upload some of your own photos. You van then post it on this blog.

BTW you may have to choose small photos (i.e ones than are less then 200kb) if you have a 56kp/s dial up internet connection, otherwisw it will take you hours.